'Afar' in the Bible

Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:

For though Jehovah is high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; But the haughty he knoweth from afar.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.